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NetBeans IDE 8 Cookbook

By : David Salter, Rhawi Dantas
Book Image

NetBeans IDE 8 Cookbook

By: David Salter, Rhawi Dantas

Overview of this book

<p>From the start to the end of a Java project's lifecycle, this book will show you how to perform many key tasks with the NetBeans IDE, uncovering more about mobile, desktop, and enterprise Java along the way.</p> <p>You will start by creating Java projects and learning how to refactor and use NetBeans tools to increase developer efficiency. You will then get a walkthrough of how to create a desktop application before covering JavaFX and mobile applications and how to use external services within them. Having seen how to create many different types of applications, you will then be shown how to test and profile them before storing them in revision control systems such as Git or Subversion. Finally, you will learn how to extend NetBeans itself by adding new features to the IDE.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
NetBeans IDE 8 Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Rename refactoring


Sometimes, when developing applications, a developer's first choice of a name for a package, class, or member, and so on, isn't the best choice. NetBeans allows developers to easily change the name of these objects using the Rename refactoring wizard. This wizard is clever enough to change both the name of the selected object and any references to it throughout the project's code base.

Getting ready

First we will need to create a new project, so please refer to the recipes in Chapter 1, Using NetBeans Projects, for creating Java projects. We will use the same project for all the refactoring recipes in this chapter. When naming the project, enter Refactoring in the Project Name field and ensure that a main class called refactoring.Refactoring is created. When the Projects explorer shows the Refactoring project, expand the Refactoring node if not yet expanded.

How to do it…

First off, we will rename the initial package that was created with the project using the following steps...